The Fortune 500 CEO list represents the aspirations of businesspeople everywhere. Being the CEO of one of these companies means heading a huge source of wealth and represents the worldwide spread of a brand. Many of us understand that it takes years to take a business to such lofty levels of success, but how long exactly does it take? The team at Madison Trust set out to answer some of these burning questions by visualizing the age of Fortune 500 CEOs in an infographic.
The graphic is illuminating, putting a face to some of the world’s most recognizable brands but it also shows us strong trends in the relative ages of these CEOs. The breakdown of CEOs per age bracket looks like this:
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- [30-39]: 1
- [40-49]: 39
- [50-59]: 222
- [60-69]: 210
- [70-79]: 24
- [80-89]: 3
- [90-99]: 1